[Bug 903146] Re: please add support for globbing in overrides

[Niels Thykier]

Thanks for the clarification.  I believe the feature you requested are
already available in Lintian (since 2.5.0~rc4).

Please refer to [1] for more information.  It matches more than a
regular shell glob, but I believe it covers what you wanted.

Furthermore, please note that it is also possible to create architecture
specific overrides.  However this is not properly documented at the
moment.

~Niels

[1] http://lintian.debian.org/manual/section-2.4.html#section-2.4.1

"""
[...] If you add an asterisk (*) in the additional info, this will match arbitrary strings similar to the shell wildcard. 

The first wildcard support appeared in Lintian 2.0.0, which only allowed the wildcards in the very beginning or end. Version 2.5.0~rc4 extended this to allow wildcards any where in the additional info. 
"""


** Changed in: lintian (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: lintian (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Fix Released

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Title:
  please add support for globbing in overrides

Status in “lintian” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Lintian should support shell globbing when specifying file paths,
  especially now that multiarch is being deployed which means that
  library paths are different between archs.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: lintian 2.5.3ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Dec 12 13:09:55 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/zsh
  SourcePackage: lintian
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-05 (160 days ago)

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